[PATCH] slab: remove alloc_pages() calls

The slab allocator never uses alloc_pages since kmem_getpages() is always
called with a valid nodeid.  Remove the branch and the code from
kmem_getpages()

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 15d25ae5b686..e5ec26e0c460 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1205,11 +1205,7 @@ static void *kmem_getpages(kmem_cache_t *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid)
         int i;
 
         flags |= cachep->gfpflags;
-        if (likely(nodeid == -1)) {
-                page = alloc_pages(flags, cachep->gfporder);
-        } else {
-                page = alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder);
-        }
+        page = alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder);
         if (!page)
                 return NULL;
         addr = page_address(page);